<div dir="ltr">Here's the state of platform as I see it shaping up for 2013.2:<div><br></div><div style>Proposals in flight for 2013.2:</div><div style><ul style><li style><b>case-insensitive:</b> looking good - will require <b>hashable</b></li>
<li style><b>attoparsec: </b>looking good<br></li><li style><b>JuicyPixels:</b> people like the idea of having a library like this one, perhaps even this one, but there is concern that this API hasn't baked enough.</li>
<li style><b>OpenGL </b>&<b> GLUT:</b> there is a proposal to remove these. The HP versions are very stale, and the new versions would require inclusion of packages<b> ObjectName</b>, <b>StateVar</b> and <b>Tensor</b> which has not met with approval. I would like to see those three packages removed, the modules folded back into OpenGL, and put under Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.</li>
</ul><div style>Proposals we need for 2013.2:</div><div style><ul style><li style><b>hashable:</b> required by case-insensitive, no proposal yet</li></ul>Proposals I'd like to see for 2013.2:</div><div style><ul style>
<li style><b>unordered-containers: </b>though, perhaps Johan is going to meld that into <b>containers</b>? I'd like to see the development plan for this (and <b>hashable</b>) settled.</li><li style><b>aeson:</b> we need this in the platform, as JSON has become ubiquitous. It requires settling <b>hashable</b> and <b>unordered-containers</b>.</li>
</ul>Proposals that will take some more thought, hence not likely for 2013.2:</div><div style><ul style><li style><b>test-framework</b> & friends: these require a number of other packages like <b>ansi-terminal</b> and <b>hostname</b>. I suspect they should all just go in, but it will take some time to review and prep all that.</li>
<li style><b>criterion</b> & <b>statistics:</b> both require a number of smaller packages we don't have like <b>erf</b> and <b>math-functions</b>. Again, will take time to sort out.</li></ul>Areas still looking for good candidates (if these are simple could make it this round):</div>
<div style><ul style><li style>simple db like dbm or sqlite support</li><li style>file utils for common file system manipulations</li><li style>logging</li><li style>2D graphics - perhaps gloss and/or diagrams?</li></ul>
- Mark</div>
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